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Flashforward 2008 just announced their Film Festival Finalists which, happily, you can look at here at their site.

For those of you who just love to be a little more interactive yourselves, they're holding a whole People's Choice Awards (which is not trademarked as is TV's popular People's Choice awards) that allows you to look at the pieces and vote on your favorite.

Sadly, there is no ballot stuffing.

You know, there's a public act that's just gone out of favor.

Regardless, this should get your primed for the November elections.

They're good when they're fresh.

They're better when they're stale.

And they're best when laid on in dioramas like the Assassination of Julius Caesar and the last scene from Reservoir Dogs.

Which is why the Washington Post held their first ever Peeps Diorama Contest.

(This is a Safe For Work Site.)

Who says there's no good soft news out there?

 

(Thanks to Ryan T. for the pass along!) 

I hadn't seen the BBC series Planet Earth, so I was surprised when I saw this incredibly beautiful trailer on YouTube.

Leave it to the Brits, spectacular footage and progressive music (this time by Sigur Ros)

Consider it a belated New Year's present from your Anglophile friend, Tim.

How much is not enough?

From BBC's show Catherine Tate.

(This clip is considered PG-13 in that it recognizes the existence of sex and illustrates the fact adults often make poor decisions after ingesting alcohol.)

Right here on YouTube

"Forget about the Emmys, right now many are buzzing about the Webbys" - CNN

If you find the Emmys a snooze and the Academy Awards endless, you may want to watch an award show where your work has actually been considered.

Going strong in its 10th year, the Webby Awards recognizes incredible talent in "100+ Website, Advertising, Film/Video and Mobile Web Categories".

These include blogs, use of typography on a site, viral marketing, experimental online film & video, and, yes, weird site.

Time is running out for submitting your winning entry, the deadline is December 14th.

Just think, you'll be able to give your Webby hallmark 5-word acceptance speech in front of millions (online)!

Here's mine:

"Hey, is this thing on?"

Well, our booth is. And, wow, what a booth!

If you're into the Flash world at all and missed this year's FITC Hollywood, you can get a flavor of the event through this clip from blip.tv. (I don't quite no how to turn down the volume of the background so I can hear the interviewees better, but maybe your selective hearing is better than mine.)

If you're interested in learning more about Flash and its capabilities, I highly recommend seeing what events and classes are being held over at LA Flash.

So even though I have no idea what an intarsia pattern is, I'm blogging ahead!

Chronicle Books is holding a design contest that many of you Designers out there might find interesting.

They're putting the finishing touches on their latest knitting book, Picture Perfect Knits by Laura Birek, and they're looking for...

"the five most creative, most dream-worthy intarsia knitting patterns. It could be anything, from a jaunty anchor to a geek-chic argyle pattern to a killer alphabet. Whatever pattern you would want to see in a knitting book. Five winners will have their name and pattern printed in the book and be promoted here on our Handmade Thursdays. Winners will also receive a free copy of the book when it comes out next fall."

They use as an example this Wonder Woman sweater someone named Practical Polly made.

Once again, I am so lost.

As a young lad I was told if I took up knitting, hooligans would most likely come by and stab me with my knitting needles.

Happily I took up Saturday morning cartoons and never looked back.

But if you're an artsy, craftsy, or just hellaciously talented, go to the contest site and give 'em heck!

When you win and feel you owe me one, a Snidely Whiplash sweater will do nicely.

Thanking you in advance...

iMedia Connection's Elizabeth Catterall was on hand at the  Fourth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference at Stanford where one panel tried to unravel the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (available as a PDF here) and copyright and trademark violators.

If you like the Web, and love Law (with a capital "L") then this article is for you!

If you like the Web, but hate Law, might I suggest a Mr. T video?

That always hits the spot.

Okay, enough with the clever titles.

I love a little ruthless science every now and again.

And I'm not a big fan of astrology.

Neither, apparently, is Bill Nye The Science Guy.

 

Apparently the logo for the 2012 Olympics (to be held in London) is so bad that it causes epileptic seizures.

Okay, that's stretching the point, but even without the medical complaints, the logo has very few fans.

Except, of course, for the people who paid $790,000 to develop it.

Funny how no one is ever jumping up and down about how much they like a logo, huh?